City Rush rolls over its mobile strategy games rivals in August downloads

Future mobile strategy games of London took advantage of the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week in the U.S. to update its Hungry Shark Evolution game, a move that allowed it to break into the top 10 global downloads.

Meanwhile, King crushed it in China, as Tencent’s localized version of Candy Crush Saga performed well on Tencent’s mobile strategy games and Weixing social networks. That pushed Candy Crush Saga back into the top-10 worldwide download charts. That’s a pretty quick result, as King and Tencent only signed a deal to bring the game to China in April. Tencent and CJ Netmarble also had a hit with Everybody’s Marble, which is integrated into the mobile messaging networks Line, KakaoTalk, and WeChat.

Gameloft also scored with its movie-based Despicable Me game. In late July, it introduced “the Jelly Lab,” enabling the app to grab the No. 4 slot in combined worldwide download charts.

Japan’s SoftBank also had a big month. In August, SoftBank secured a majority stake in the voting stock for Supercell, creator of the No. 1-ranked Clash of Clans (in revenues). Supercell’s Boom Beach also rose in the iOS download charts in August, thanks to a new update.

On Google Play, the Guitar Hero clone Rock Hero rose to No. 4 in the charts in worldwide downloads. The Android game was most popular in the U.S., Brazil, and Mexico. The game was published by Guitar & Music Games.

Disney and Tab Tale moved up in the ranks of downloads with kid-focused mobile games in August. Disney got a boost from the release of Kitchen Scramble, in which players run their own food trucks. Tab Tale broke into the top ten  on iOS with its Airheads Jump platformer mobile strategy games.